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Re: [PATCH 1/1] ls-remote: don't use '-h' for options

From
Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 27, 2020, 13:08 UTC
Message-ID
<20200227130833.GA10339@danh.dev>
In-Reply-To
<b0397b3285eab3448a3fd5dd2c50abb9@pascalroeleven.nl>
On 2020-02-27 12:42:18+0100, dev@pascalroeleven.nl wrote:
> The '-h' option for ls-remote will never be reached as the argument is
> already processed by the git wrapper before passed on to ls-remote.
> The ls-remote help text will therefore be displayed instead of the
> '--heads' option.
No, git ls-remote still see '-h'
- 'git ls-remote -h' will show short help.
- 'git ls-remote -h <remote>' and 'git ls-remote --heads <remote>'
  will show the same output

See also: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqk1ztmkbn.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/

xmqqk1ztmkbn.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com
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> 
> Signed-off-by: Pascal Roeleven <dev@pascalroeleven.nl>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 1 -
>  builtin/ls-remote.c             | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
> b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
> index a2ea1fd..b5b7d7a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
> @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ commit IDs.
> 
>  OPTIONS
>  -------
> --h::
>  --heads::
>  -t::
>  --tags::
> diff --git a/builtin/ls-remote.c b/builtin/ls-remote.c
> index 6ef5195..85ce336 100644
> --- a/builtin/ls-remote.c
> +++ b/builtin/ls-remote.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ int cmd_ls_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const char
> *prefix)
>  			   N_("path of git-upload-pack on the remote host"),
>  			   PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN },
>  		OPT_BIT('t', "tags", &flags, N_("limit to tags"), REF_TAGS),
> -		OPT_BIT('h', "heads", &flags, N_("limit to heads"), REF_HEADS),
> +		OPT_BIT(0, "heads", &flags, N_("limit to heads"), REF_HEADS),
>  		OPT_BIT(0, "refs", &flags, N_("do not show peeled tags"), REF_NORMAL),
>  		OPT_BOOL(0, "get-url", &get_url,
>  			 N_("take url.<base>.insteadOf into account")),
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
-- 
Danh
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